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Chapter 23 Night Attack on the Old Buffalo

Over the next few days, the Maja lions attempted to attack the buffalo at night without success.Drooping Ears led the lionesses to only find a few sick and disabled duikers that failed to migrate away. The lions spent day after day hungry.

When another dusk came, Jin Er entrusted the five cubs to Bai Xue to take care of them, and decided to sneak attack the buffalo at night with Da Er and them.

The African wild buffalo weighs [-] kilograms, four times that of an adult lion. The buffalo's huge horns and powerful hooves are the most effective defensive weapons.If the hunter is a little timid, it will delay the fighter plane and bring disaster to the entire hunting team.A male buffalo can knock two female lions to the ground at the same time, and a group of violent male buffalo can even crush a lion to pieces.The Maja pride does not take buffalo as prey unless it is absolutely necessary.

The three young lionesses that Bai Xue helped Jin Er raise had never participated in hunting operations that attacked buffalo at night.Therefore, the three young lionesses could not be the main force of this nighttime buffalo attack, but could only follow the main attacker to observe the hunting operation on the spot.

The Majia lions attacked the buffalo at night and lacked experienced main attackers, so Jin Er decided to act as the main attacker himself.Bai Xue blocked Golden Ear, which was about to go hunting and acted as the most risky main attacker.

Although Baixue has never participated in the night-time attack of lions on buffaloes, Baixue has gone through hardships, is bold and careful, and has superb hunting skills.Jin Er believes that since Bai Xue can hunt adult wildebeest and zebra alone, he can naturally knock down a besieged adult buffalo.Jin Er is always grateful to Bai Xue: the three young lionesses can grow up, relying on Bai Xue's help, without Bai Xue, her children cannot survive.

At night, the lions quietly approached an old buffalo that was far away from the herd and was grazing night grass alone.Bai Xue lay in ambush behind a termite pile not far from the male buffalo, ready to pounce, and three young female lions also hid by a pond not far from the termite pile.Drooping Ears led the three young lionesses to crawl forward, surrounded the old buffalo from three sides, and forced the old buffalo to the direction where Bai Xue and them were.The buffalo is a dangerous animal, and the lion, Hesse, was also involved in the hunt, standing on a high rock in the distance, ready for the final kill.

Droopy Ears and the three juvenile lionesses had stalked close enough that they suddenly struck.The panicked old buffalo ran towards the termite pile.Hesse jumped off the rock and ran towards the termite pile.

Bai Xue was ready, and when the old buffalo got closer, she jumped onto the old buffalo's neck and bit the old buffalo's nose and mouth.The old buffalo suddenly changed its escape route, stepping on the shoulders of a young lioness, and jumped directly into the nearby pond.Snow White's dazzling white fur acted like a signal light, signaling to the old buffalo.

Baixue bravely rushed into the water following the old buffalo, but the other lionesses did not want to venture into the water, and Baixue alone in the deep water had nothing to do.Lions are not good at fighting in water, and buffaloes are more familiar with the water environment than lions, and lions are likely to suffer fatal attacks from bull horns in water.The lionesses were waiting on the shore, hoping to pounce on the old buffalo after its strength was exhausted.

Originally, without the old buffalo noticing, Baixue could jump onto its neck, bite its snout and control the two horns of the old buffalo, making it lose its ability to resist.Then, with drooping ears, they will work together to knock down the huge old buffalo, and Hessen will use its sharp fangs to bite off the throat of the old buffalo. In this way, the gluttonous feast of the lions can begin immediately.But because Snowy's coat color gave away her position, everything changed, and the lions' previous efforts were wasted.

In the early morning, several young and strong male buffaloes rushed to the pond and rampaged everywhere.Taking advantage of the distraction of the lionesses, the old buffalo jumped out of the pond and fled far away.

The lions had been busy all night, but found nothing, so they had to go home to sleep and wait for the night to fall again.

No one meant to blame Bai Xue, but Bai Xue fell into deep self-blame.Baixue looks forward to the night coming as soon as possible so that she can make up for her mistakes.

Before night completely enveloped the prairie, the hungry lionesses set off.

The lionesses soon set their sights on a group of wild buffaloes returning from grazing.The floppy ears aimed at a buffalo at the end of the line, which was limping and appeared to have a broken front leg.

Droopy Ears and the lionesses ambushed on both sides of the road where the buffalo was going to pass.Baixue tried her best to keep her body as low as possible and remained motionless, disguised as a white rock. The other lionesses were lurking in the grass, waiting for the buffalo herd to slowly pass by, and the lions would kill the unlucky one at the end of the team. This buffalo is enough to feed the entire pride of lions.

Thirty meters away from where the lionesses were lying in ambush, the leader of the buffalo herd stopped suddenly. He stared at the place where Baixue was from afar, barked a few times in doubt, and then led the buffalo herd to change the direction of travel.

Once again the lionesses found nothing.

The 29 lions of the maca lions, large and small, will spend another day hungry.

The lionesses began to hide from the snow.

Bai Xue was so ashamed that she walked to the bushes on the edge of the territory alone.Bai Xue wanted to catch a baby warthog and feed it to the children at the risk of being pierced through the abdomen by the fangs of the mother warthog.But even the warthogs seem to have trouble with Snow White, they have all moved away and disappeared without a trace.

Bai Xue wandered alone not far from the campsite of the Majia lions, embarrassed to go home for a long time.From a distance, Bai Xue saw that Jin Er was feeding the seven cubs including Jin Qiu and Huang Qiu.

(End of this chapter)